Users Guide

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Using Lifecycle Controller, you can monitor the hardware inventory and events of a server throughout its life cycle.
Topics:
Hardware inventory view and export
About view and export current inventory
About view and export factory-shipped inventory
Viewing hardware inventory current or factory shipped
Exporting hardware inventory current or factory shipped
Viewing or exporting hardware inventory after part replacement
Viewing or exporting current inventory after resetting Lifecycle Controller
Lifecycle Controller log
Hardware inventory view and export
Lifecycle Controller provides the following wizards to manage the system inventory:
View Current Inventory
Export Current Inventory
View Factory Shipped Inventory
Export Factory Shipped Inventory
Collect System Inventory on Restart
About view and export current inventory
You can view information about the currently installed hardware components that are internal to the system chassis
and the configuration for each component. All the currently installed hardware components such as fans, PCI
devices, NICs, DIMMs, PSU, and their properties and values are displayed. You can export this information to a
compressed XML file and then to a USB drive or network share. The XML file is saved in the following format:
HardwareInventory_<servicetag>_<timestamp>.xml.
For more information about the easy-to-use names of the hardware components, see Easy-To-Use System Component Names.
NOTE:
Incorrect inventory data is displayed or exported after performing a system erase. For viewing the correct inventory
data, see Viewing and Exporting Current Inventory After Resetting Lifecycle Controller.
Related tasks
Viewing hardware inventory current or factory shipped on page 26
Exporting hardware inventory current or factory shipped on page 26
Viewing or exporting hardware inventory after part replacement on page 28
About view and export factory-shipped inventory
You can view information about the factory-installed hardware components and their configuration. You can export
this information in an XML format to a USB drive or a network share. The XML file is saved in this format:
FactoryShippedHWInventory_<servicetag>.xml.
For more information about the easy-to-use names of the hardware components, see Easy-to-use System Component Names.
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